English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 20
There is a fair at the neighbouring town; you shall take these forty guineas and buy a cow.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, neighbour, take, buy · To what, where: forty guineas, cow
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fair | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 7 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 town | amod |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fair | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 is | parataxis |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 guineas | det |
| 14 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 guineas | nummod |
| 15 | guineas | guinea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 take | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 buy | cc |
| 17 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 take | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cow | det |
| 19 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buy | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | fair property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | take | shall | you | this forty guineas | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guinea=Theme | ||||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | you not said here | a cow | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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